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existence

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" [syn: being , beingness ] [ant: nonexistence , nonbeing ] everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Existence , a philosophical concept in metaphysics and ontology . Existence may also refer to: Existence (Dark Suns album) Existence (Beto Vázquez Infinity album) "Existence" (The X-Files) , a 2001 television episode eXistenZ , a 1999 horror science-fiction ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "reality," from Old French existence , from Medieval Latin existentia / exsistentia , from existentem / exsistentem (nominative existens / exsistens ) "existent," present participle of Latin existere / exsistere "stand forth, come out, emerge; ...

Usage examples of existence.

Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.

Why has the Primal not remained self-gathered so that there be none of this profusion of the manifold which we observe in existence and yet are compelled to trace to that absolute unity?

Untouched by multiplicity, it will be wholly self-sufficing, an absolute First, whereas any not-first demands its earlier, and any non-simplex needs the simplicities within itself as the very foundations of its composite existence.

I sometimes think this monotonous monotone of an actionless existence is more hell than I know what to do with.

Thus we are told that earth cannot have concrete existence without the help of some moist element--the moisture in water being the necessary adhesive--but admitting that we so find it, there is still a contradiction in pretending that any one element has a being of its own and in the same breath denying its self-coherence, making its subsistence depend upon others, and so, in reality, reducing the specific element to nothing.

The answer is that while Matter can not be any of the things which are founded upon it, it may quite well be something else, admitting that all existences are not rooted in Matter.

Now admitting the existence of a living thing that is at once a Thought and its object, it must be a Life distinct from the vegetative or sensitive life or any other life determined by Soul.

June, 1896, great stress was laid on the fact of the difference in the admixture of inks found on letters contemporaneous with the date of the will, and it was asserted also that the ink with which the will was written was not in existence at the time it was alleged to have been made, June 14, 1873, and probably not earlier than ten years later.

Lafayette-Constant wing of French liberalism by no means denies the existence of utilitarian themes in their advocacy of human rights.

Otto von Meissner, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, and Goering, who had accompanied Hitler, were the only witnesses to the conversation, and though Meissner is not a completely dependable source, his affidavit at Nuremberg is the only firsthand testimony in existence of what followed.

The Federal authorities, finally, are responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, whose existence on the statute books is a fatal bar to the treatment of the problem of corporate aggrandizement from the standpoint of genuinely national policy.

An old emeritus professor, Doctoran Hildegard, who was famed for his agnosticism, sipped his and announced that he now had evidence of the existence of the Deity.

Before this fire, the only crypt whose existence was known of, was a small chamber under the platform of the high altar, no wider than the central aisle of the choir, and only equal to a bay and a half of that aisle in length.

Gaean Reach and Alastor Cluster, especially those with rural populations, a new profession has come into existence: the man skilled in star-naming and star-lore.

Surely, with such tremendous power and influence, he might be the man to inform of the existence of Alata and so be discharged of his mission at last.